By Mohammed Estaiteyeh, Assistant Professor of Digital Pedagogies and Technology Literacies, Faculty of Education, Brock University
Whether you think AI is a good or bad thing, the fact is it’s here. AI literacy enables students to make safe and informed decisions when using AI, preventing habits that compromise academic integrity.
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By Salman Ahmad, Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of the West of Scotland
As you wait in the departure lounge for your flight this summer, you may notice your aeroplane being pumped full of fuel ahead of takeoff. And then you may start to wonder why flying is still so dependent on fossil fuels, and whether you should have booked a holiday destination that’s accessible by a more environmentally friendly form of transport.
So what happened to plans for so-called sustainable aviation fuel? Wasn’t it supposed to be the
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By Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
Even the memorial to Queen Victoria, undoubtedly the most commemorated woman in British history, is relatively modest in scale compared to this new project.
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By Joscha Abels, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen
It was the briefest of messages, but the potential consequences could have been significant. Elon Musk posted a four-word tweet on June 14: “The beams are on”. The message prefigured a consequential intervention – not only in Iranian domestic affairs but potentially in the geopolitics of the Middle East. The US billionaire was responding to a request on his online platform X, asking him to activate the Starlink satellite system over Iran in support of anti-government protests.
Following Israel’s…
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By Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin
Most people experience periods of loneliness, isolation or solitude in their lives. But these are different things, and the proportion of people feeling lonely is stable over time. So why do we keep talking about an epidemic of loneliness?
Before the COVID pandemic, several studies showed that rates of loneliness were stable in England, the US, Finland, Sweden and Germany, among other places, over recent decades.
While COVID changed many things, loneliness levels quickly returned to pre-pandemic…
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By Max Telford, Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, UCL
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our history.
But scientists are still puzzling over why we evolved into this particular form. Why do humans uniquely have a chin, for example? And why, relative to body weight, is a human testicle triple the size of a gorilla’s but a fifth of that of a chimpanzee? As I show in my…
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By Reena Kukreja, Associate Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
Secrets We Keep, a Danish suspense drama about the disappearance of a Filipina au pair from an elite suburb, delivers a sharp social commentary on racial and class entitlements.
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By Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University
Donald Trump is a difficult figure to deal with, both for foreign leaders and figures closer to home who find themselves in his crosshairs. The US president is unpredictable, sensitive and willing to break the rules to get his way.
But in Trump’s second term, a variety of different leaders and institutions seem to have settled on a way to handle him. The key, they seem to think, is flattery. The most obvious example came at the recently concluded Nato summit…
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By Eugene Y. Chan, Associate Professor of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Ali Gohary, Lecturer (Assistant Professor Equivalent) of Marketing, La Trobe University
Why did Aritzia open a café inside its flagship store in Toronto? Why did Burberry pivot from fashion photography to cinematic ads that transport viewers into dreamlike sequences? And why is Simons, Canada’s remaining department store, incorporating…
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By Helena F. S. Lopes, Lecturer in Modern Asian History, Cardiff University
Macau saw an influx of refugees during the war, with some going on to influence all facets of life in the territory.
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